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  • There were only those of the race we call the Ancestral Friends and there were, after the Rescue, the Ancestors here on the face of this planet along with the plants and all of the creatures unable to share their mind's thoughts.

    Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001

  • There were only those of the race we call the Ancestral Friends and there were, after the Rescue, the Ancestors here on the face of this planet along with the plants and all of the creatures unable to share their mind's thoughts.

    Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001

  • "Different Indian groups have inherited forty to eighty percent of their ancestry from a population that we call the Ancestral North Indians who are related to western Eurasians, and the rest from the Ancestral South Indians, who are not related to any group outside India," said co-author David Reich, an associate professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and an associate member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

    innovations-report 2009

  • has set up a company called Ancestral Footsteps to give non-celebrities the same treatment sans cameras.

    No Guarantee You're Not Descended From a Hooker 2008

  • has set up a company called Ancestral Footsteps to give non-celebrities the same treatment sans cameras.

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  • Though I can't say whether Mr. Gurney would approve, Mr. Kaikkonen has directed "Ancestral Voices" with such fluidity and attention to detail that it works at least as well in this new form.

    The Family and Its Discontents Terry Teachout 2011

  • Deb Porter-Hayes Pictured, a scene from A.R. Gurney's 'Ancestral Voices,' first presented in 1999 and now at New Hampshire's Peterborough Players.

    The Family and Its Discontents Terry Teachout 2011

  • Recently Reviewed The Invisible Girls I confess with embarrassment to having misjudged "Ancestral Voices" when I saw the original production.

    The Family and Its Discontents Terry Teachout 2011

  • The charcoal under the glass bead dated to 2410 +/- B.P., millennia before any trade beads came to North America and more than a thousand years before the sinewy Ancestral Puebloans a.k.a.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • First presented by New York's Lincoln Center Theater in 1999, "Ancestral Voices" was written to be done as a staged reading by five actors who play multiple roles and remain seated throughout the show—but Gus Kaikkonen, artistic director of New Hampshire's Peterborough Players, has chosen instead to mount it as a fully staged play performed by a cast of 13.

    The Family and Its Discontents Terry Teachout 2011

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